Joy Christian and Scottsdale prep moved up taking a lot of talent with them.. VL has a pretty good RB but hasn't proved much yet because he's still young, GC will have some players to watch but they will have to win some games to get their guys legit looks

QB/DB Kade Scott scored 6 TD's against Ajo last night.5 TD's on offence. 2 were thrown 3 were rushing and 1 interception which was ran back for a 60 yard TD..He's been a starting QB for Salome since the middle half his freshman year. Against Ash Fork he threw 4 TD's and rushed 1 TD in...He definatly deserves credit.

Those are huge #'s for Salome's QB, but look who he was playing against. Salome's schedule is pretty light this year, so he may put up big numbers. He may truly deserve POY consideration, but let's see how he does against a better team this next week.

Wow! Huge numbers for kade, glad to see that because from what I've seen he's a good kid and a great athlete. He does play a very soft schedule though, if he wants legit POY looks he's gonna have to perform big against Bagdad and in the Playoffs

Wow, no shout out for Bryce Atkerson from Mayer? The kid in two games has just about 600 rushing yards and 9 touchdowns. And he had 2 50+ yard touchdowns called back for holding last night. Not counting what he did against St.David. He also plays full time defense and has countless tackles. I'm not trying to ride the bandwagon here, but that is an outstanding performance and I will be willing to make a gentlemens bet that he beats his brother David Atkersons single season rushing record this season. He is way faster, way more agile, and has way better vision. And he has hands! Look out for this senior, he will turn some heads!

Agreed Akertson is a great player. alot faster and more athletic than older brother. But David had the capability to carry his team through games. The toughness mentally as well as physically to drive his team to be better. A POT needs those traits. he plays on a team that is very undisciplined and is going nowhere.

Wow! That's legit! 600 rushing yards and 9 tds is impressive, but no one can give him the kudos he deserves if no one knows what he does. Most of us only see what is on max preps. At the D-6 level it's hard to keep up with players like that if no one posts anything. In the end, us fellas on scout.com forums dont determine the POY, but the "buzz" surrounding a player or a team does travel through sources like this. Especially with smaller schools. I personally think coaches do a disservice to kids who play their hearts out every Friday when they don't put stars out there for people to see. With coaches constantly trading game film, it's not like you are giving yourself a competitive edge by hiding your stars anyways...... Post that crap!

Anyways.... Thanks for the update, brother! Keep us posted on this kid! We all love to hear about performances like that.------------------------------------------------ LittleLead2319 wrote:

Wow, no shout out for Bryce Atkerson from Mayer? The kid in two games has just about 600 rushing yards and 9 touchdowns. And he had 2 50+ yard touchdowns called back for holding last night. Not counting what he did against St.David. He also plays full time defense and has countless tackles. I'm not trying to ride the bandwagon here, but that is an outstanding performance and I will be willing to make a gentlemens bet that he beats his brother David Atkersons single season rushing record this season. He is way faster, way more agile, and has way better vision. And he has hands! Look out for this senior, he will turn some heads!

I agree that Atkerson from Mayer is a very good player, but after seeing him play, I don't think he's nearly as much of an impact player as Merrell from Duncan, Low and Loveall from Bagdad, Despain from Mogollon, or Johnson from Joe City. Sorry, don't mean to take anything away from a very good player, but there are others whom I feel are better AT THIS POINT IN THE SEASON if we're talking POY.

I agree that he's a tough runner and those are monster stats, but If players from Pima and Bagdad played full games they would have monster stats as well. I believe that in order to get legit POY looks, you have to be a leader of a team who makes a deep run and you must perform well week after week (especially against top ranked opponents)

I don't believe that a deep run in the playoffs is necessarily important. I do, however, believe that your team must play against top competition and compete well week in and week out. Strength of schedule should play much more of a role than how far you make it in the playoffs. Consistency is key. You can't rush for 200 yards against a lesser opponent and disappear against a top five team. Also, players who excel defensively as well as offensively have a much higher chance to win it

incognito is right. Some of the top teams don't measure up with their stats. The same is even true for all the other sports. Pima, for example has 4/5 very good running backs that all get plays, an outstanding quarterback, and a defense that may be the strength of the team. Most people posting (quite knowledgeably) here probably couldn't even tell you the name of a Pima player.

If that's so then I'm confused on why Nick Henderson was POY last year, he had Big stats on offense and was the leader of a State Championship team although he didn't play Denfence, meanwhile Cale Merrell puts up huge numbers on Offense and Defence but is on a less then amazing team.. Maybe last year was an exception, but I call it as it seems

Duncan also played one of the toughest schedules in D6. Nick Henderson won POY because he deserved it, not because his team won state. It's just rediculous to me to assume that the best player in a division has to be on the best team. That's not ALWAYS true. And yes, I would say Henderson was more of an exception than the rule. You can't deny that a talented player all around does get more attention